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The Bankstown District Sports Club has kindly allowed us to award prizes to athletes who compete for the club on a regular basis. We are given over $4000 for summer and the same for winter.

Bankstown Sports Athletics conducts three main incentive schemes during each season:

Summer (/winter) Incentive Premiership Points,
Summer (/winter) Performance Points
Annual ANSW fees, and
Other Incentives

1) Summer Incentive Premiership Points:
Bankstown Sports Athletics Club gives a prize of $100 to the person who gets the most ANSW points during the Kings Premiership competitions (7 weeks). ANSW gives 50 pts for a win, 40 pts for 2nd etc. Then the Club (Clare Brotherton) adds up what each of our athletes gets and we give $100 to the winner.

Check out the results for the Summer Incentive Premiership 2008

News! The 2008 Premiership has just finished and our club came 3rd. It is on the ANSW web. News!
Our club has won about $1000 worth of equipment from Kings Track and Field.

The Winter Incentive is different to the Summer. The winter athletes decided to do away with prizes and go for getting their competition fees paid for. It costs them $17 each week of competition so all members now get some benefit. The committee reviews this each year.

2) Summer Performance Points:
The other side of our points is performance based (like decathlon points).
The better you are the more points you get.
The more events you go in the more points you get too.
The purpose is to encourage athletes to compete for us throughout the season. These points are accumulated over the entire season - premiership and all-comers.
We use the Mercier scoring tables. The winner for male and female is $350, 2nd gets $300, 3rd gets $250 etc. Juniors get about $200 for 1st.

Check out the results for the Summer Performance Points 2008-2009

f any athlete has been left off could they please let me know.
If anyone wants to know how the points work they can email me and I will explain to them.
Thanks, Clare Brotherton

3) Annual ANSW fees:

Annual ANSW fees can be paid in winter if athletes compete in a nominated number of events.
Summer athletes can get ANSW fees paid if they compete in 6 of the 7 Premiership comps and 75% of all competitions OR if they have reached Open qualifying National standards.

Other incentives:

Bankstown Sports Athletics also offers a number of incentive schemes for its athletes and coaches and for members seeking to become Qualified Officials.

For participation by athletes in state and interclub competitions, there are rewards for:

Summer Interclub and State Championships
Winter State Cross Country, Road and Walks Championships
Athletes and coaches who are selected for NSW or national teams can apply to the committee for financial assistance to enable them to compete for their state or country.
If support is given by the Bankstown Sports Club, the athlete (or a parent if under 18 years) must belong to the Sports Club.
Athletes who perform at a high standard nationally or internationally can be awarded senior or junior scholarships. Junior scholarships holders have been awarded $1,000 a year for two years.
Members who wish to become qualified coaches or officials can apply to the committee to have their course fees paid. Qualified coaches and officials can apply to upgrade their Certificates or to attend approved courses.